چیویت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چویت (çivit), چیوید (çivid), چوید (çivid), چیگیت (çiğit), چگیت (çiğit)

Etymology

Cognate to Kyrgyz чивит (civit), Crimean Tatar чивит, çivit … This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

چیویت • (çivit)

indigo, Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera gen. et spp.
indigo dye

Descendants

Turkish: çivit
→ Albanian: çivit
→ Armenian: չիվիտ (čʻivit), չվիթ (čʻvitʻ)
→ Macedonian: чивит (čivit)
→ Romanian: civit
→ Serbo-Croatian: (regional)
Cyrillic script: чѝвит

Latin script: čìvit

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çivit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیویت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 748

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